Ive always had a soft-spot for inappropriate crowd-surfing (Grammar guys may remember me crowd-surfing across the 07 Afterball, atop a commandeered picnic table that Id snapped the legs off; UN stalwarts may remember a similar excursion by a younger, fatter Curwen at the 06 NZMUN Ball from one side of the dance floor to the other ... this time, sans table) ... but this is up to eleven. Apparently, its the first such incident at a classical concert since the 18th century. (part of me now wants to go googling 1700s crowdsurfing incidents); although I really love the post-facto justification from the scientist :D “David was investigating what the nature of the rules are using the skills that make him an extraordinary scientist – and for some in the audience, a slightly irritating one.” [...] “Classical music, trying to seem cool and less stuffy, reeks of some sort of fossilised art form undergoing a midlife crisis,” the expert in non-equilibrium molecular reaction dynamics, who is a visiting scientist at Stanford University, said. [...] “Neither the bourgeoisie audience nor their curators (eg Tom Morris) really believe what they say. [...] He denied being drunk, adding: “This may be a consequence of me being American, but I can quite easily be provocative without the need to be inebriated.”.
Posted on: Sat, 21 Jun 2014 06:13:00 +0000
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